There had been discussions about a mass suicide. In some circles, there were practice drills,” one survivor recounted to The ...

Jonestown is seared into the American psyche as one the darkest tragedies of the modern era, where 918 people “drank the Kool Aid” and ended their lives under the command of cult leader Jim Jones.

Four decades of fanaticism, terrorism and light-speed media exposure to violence and victimization haven’t dulled the horrors of November 1978, when Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers ...

But before the people of Jonestown drank Jim Jones’s Kool-Aid, powerful liberals in San Francisco did, as Daniel J. Flynn shows in this excerpt from his new book, “Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey ...

The phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid” refers to followership at its worse. It was coined after a delusional, pseudo-guru named Jim Jones led his cult, the Peoples Temple, to mass suicide. Over ...

Jones’s followers are imagined as wide-eyed innocents, swallowing his outrageous teachings along with his cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. Teri Buford O’Shea remembers things quite differently.

1978: Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones leads a mass suicide of his followers in their camp of Jonestown in Guyana. In all, 909 people, including children, die after drinking cyanide-laced punch.

Believers of the Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ followed Reverend Jim Jones to Guyana in the Seventies, hoping to create a utopia in the jungle ...

Jim Jones, an evangelist from San Francisco, had founded Jonestown in the South American nation earlier in the 1970s. He chose Guyana as the site for his "utopia" to get out of the reach of U.S ...

Before we get to the Kool-Aid part, let's recap some horrible American history. Jim Jones was a complex man. Long story short, he was a communist and occasional Methodist minister who founded his ...

Jones himself didn’t “drink the Kool-Aid”. They found the 47-year-old preacher with a bullet wound to the head : possibly murder, perhaps more likely suicide. But to the very end he ...